Terry Ryan seriuosly needs to re-evaluate a ton of things with this team. Gardenhire is a horrible manager. He plays favorites with the vets when they need a kick in the butt and he uses younger players as scapegoats. He is unable to motivate or get them to keep their heads in the game. He keeps shuffling the lineup and positions around. The Twins win games in spite of him, not because of him. It's time for his head on a platter. Mazilli was canned in Baltimore for similar circumstances. Gardy would have been gone by now in NY or Boston. Why should we expect less?
Ullger should be gone, too. He has not made a single hitter better under his reign. He has only made people worse. We have guys who hit well in the minors, then are brought up and screwed up by Ullger. Ortiz and Kielty got better when they left. Dougie Baseball and Guzman have not been able to recover. Morneau and Mauer might get worse if Ullger tinkers with them too much. It's not too late, Terry Ryan.
Mays, Lohse and Romero should be dumped for Baker, Liriano and Bowyer. Give the minor leaguers a shot. They can't do any worse than what we have now. Punto should be benched for L-Rod. LeCroy should be dumped. He is too slow and he can only hit fastballs. Give someone else a shot. Maybe they could bring up Garrett Jones.
The only reason they won three division titles in a row was because the AL Central was so weak. Those days are over. TK's influence is also gone. The Twins always played hard when he was managing. They might have been horrible, but at least they were fundamentally sound. This team is a joke. I want to see Gardenhire gone ASAP.
Great, just great. 
Stick a fork in my beloved Minnesota Twins. With the news that Torii has a broken ankle and will miss at least a month (and maybe the rest of the year) I'm pretty convinved the Twinks are done.
In the AL Central, we're now 14.5 games behind Chicago (who show no signs of slowing down). Even if the Chi-Sox slow down to a paltry .500 pace to finish the year, the Twins would have to go 42-19 (.689) over the next 61 games to pull even with them. 
In the Wild Card Race, we're 4 games behind Oakland, the team we happen to be starting a 3-game series with, and we're coming off a 3-8 road trip. Without a HUGE turn-around in offense and a few killer games from Santana and BRadke, we are in a lot of trouble to even get a WC berth since Oakland and the Yankees are finally playing killer ball. 
It was a good run while it lasted though... 
Jeff
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